I agree with everything said above.
I'm not saying cure is useless but I am saying that one would have to know the body to use it properly. For example I don't think cure would work if you don't know what you're supposed to be healing.
Say someone isn't breathing properly. You can't just cast cure if you don't know why they're not because there could be a whole number of reasons: punctured lung, collapsed lung, bruised lung, broken rib, air way blocked, and so on and so on.
I think what makes white mages so special isn't that they can simply cast healing magic - if that were the case any black mage could easily add a cure or curaga to their arsenal. No, the things that seperate them from the rest is that they know the human body, how it works, and what to do when things go wrong with it.
In short a healer should be just as knowlagable about medicine as any doctor. The only difference between the two is that they can heal multiple wounds instantly with magic instead of having to rely on gauze, clotting packs, and simple time.
I'm not saying cure is useless but I am saying that one would have to know the body to use it properly. For example I don't think cure would work if you don't know what you're supposed to be healing.
Say someone isn't breathing properly. You can't just cast cure if you don't know why they're not because there could be a whole number of reasons: punctured lung, collapsed lung, bruised lung, broken rib, air way blocked, and so on and so on.
I think what makes white mages so special isn't that they can simply cast healing magic - if that were the case any black mage could easily add a cure or curaga to their arsenal. No, the things that seperate them from the rest is that they know the human body, how it works, and what to do when things go wrong with it.
In short a healer should be just as knowlagable about medicine as any doctor. The only difference between the two is that they can heal multiple wounds instantly with magic instead of having to rely on gauze, clotting packs, and simple time.
